How to be happy as an artist
“Once I’m about halfway through, I love making the diagnostics of how the piece should come together”
Despite popular wisdom, you don’t have to suffer for your art. Indeed, for many artists it’s their greatest source of happiness.”
Take freelance fantasy artist and author . “I’ll often ‘wake up’ from having been painting for hours, look at the clock wondering where the day went, and realise it’s time to go home,” he says. “That feeling is fantastic, because it tells you that you were immersed in something beautiful, a state of mind that’s not possible to grasp or register until
